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American Indoor Football Team To Come To ‘Western North Carolina-Boone’ Area

American Indoor Football (AIF) a professional indoor football league based out of Baltimore Md., is pleased to announce its latest team and territory.

The new team will be located in the Western North Carolina-Boone area and will be owned by a small group of investors, led by majority owner and North Carolina entrepreneur, Donald Thompson. Other investors include a championship-college football coach and a former Appalachian State University All-American football player.

The team will be begin AIF league play in the 2017 season.

Thompson is from a football family. His dad was an NCAA Division I college football coach and Thompson was awarded a football scholarship to East Carolina University.